Usain Bolt is a failed Soccer player and a failed Football player.
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Seems like a high probability that there has been at least one guy in NFL over the years who could’ve been faster than Bolt.
Actually, there has never been an NFL player that could have beaten Bolt. Do you think there are players in the field that had they focused on the PV, they could beat Duplantis?
Seems like a high probability that there has been at least one guy in NFL over the years who could’ve been faster than Bolt.
Actually, there has never been an NFL player that could have beaten Bolt. Do you think there are players in the field that had they focused on the PV, they could beat Duplantis?
While playing in the NFL, yes, but had they gone all in sprinting, possibly.
That’s the point. The NFL gets the cream of the crop that has the talent that would transfer over to sprinting.
i see it different. not everyone develops up from youth ball to college and beyond. the higher level you get if favors freaks. high skill, speed, height (if not clumsy), jumping/aerial ability, exceptional understanding of how to play the game.
the 2 best juggle kings in youth soccer age 10 when we started select were JV bench warmers a half decade later. what used to be unique skill became universal competence. and they were so slow in a running game. you can't use some slow dude who can't keep up on defense or separate on offense. you had to be really really skilled to stand out age 18.
conversely, speed that scored me goals age 10 was better age 18 and burning even scholarship division teams for goals for my d3.
if you can ball, speed always scales up. and yeah if you are fast enough to be useful on a soccer field you could run at least d3.
it's a choice. i decided to not make a choice because soccer has coaching politics, which track balances. and soccer you only have to be one of 11, track you gotta be the best.
i think all but future pros or kids who just love one sport, should be trying to play more than one. it's good athletically and emotionally.
I suppose there was a time in my life that I wanted to "make it" as a football player rather than as a track athlete. In retrospect, failing at football is one of the best things that ever happened to me.
I had an awesome time running in college. Then when it was time to wrap up my track career, I moved on to channel my competitive nature into doing something that actually matters. I love that at 40 I'm still fit and healthy, and my brain remains unpummeled.
I'm an interventional cardiologist now. I'll have more lifetime earnings than all but the upper crust of NFL players. I get the same rush out of cathing a STEMI patient that I used to get out of running a big race. All without the chronic pain and lifelong brain fog that my old high school buddies who made it as football players now live with every day.
Same for sprinters: do you really believe they LIKE to be sprinters, getting paid almost nothing, struggling to survive?
They would like to be in the NFL, earning millions a month, but they are too weak for it, so they have to hide in the track. Happened to Kerley, who was a Football player on the path to the NFL, but broke his collarbone playing Football.
Maybe they don't want to develop CTE. Fame and fortune mean little if your brain is seriously damaged.
Same for sprinters: do you really believe they LIKE to be sprinters, getting paid almost nothing, struggling to survive?
They would like to be in the NFL, earning millions a month, but they are too weak for it, so they have to hide in the track. Happened to Kerley, who was a Football player on the path to the NFL, but broke his collarbone playing Football.
Maybe they don't want to develop CTE. Fame and fortune mean little if your brain is seriously damaged.
We hear about a few NFLers who had that problem, you have any idea just how many former NFLers didn't?
Thousands of former NFLers only a tiny % .............................................
Same for sprinters: do you really believe they LIKE to be sprinters, getting paid almost nothing, struggling to survive?
They would like to be in the NFL, earning millions a month, but they are too weak for it, so they have to hide in the track. Happened to Kerley, who was a Football player on the path to the NFL, but broke his collarbone playing Football.
Maybe they don't want to develop CTE. Fame and fortune mean little if your brain is seriously damaged.
We are runners because our talent n potential was bigger in running. And we dont like team sports. There are many factors in play. Gresdier could probably have been a good winger or fullback. But he was definitely more talented in running
Not sure about runners as failed soccer players (especially in the U.S, where elite soccer hardly exists), but after failing at lucrative mainstream sports, I think that runners generally settle on the shortest distance that will give them success - most every runner would be a sprinter if they could.
Actually, there has never been an NFL player that could have beaten Bolt. Do you think there are players in the field that had they focused on the PV, they could beat Duplantis?
While playing in the NFL, yes, but had they gone all in sprinting, possibly.
That’s the point. The NFL gets the cream of the crop that has the talent that would transfer over to sprinting.
There are some guys who are good at football... but they are even better at running fast.
So they end up sprinting instead of going to the NFL...
As far as the distance running/soccer thing... back in the day we didn't even have soccer to fail at. We had to fail out of football, basketball, baseball and wrestling.
Gressier just posted a video playing soccer, and it made me realize: track athletes are just failed athletes from other sports.
Of course Gressier would like to be a soccer player, but he couldn't compete against the likes of Pogba and Mbappe.
Same for sprinters: do you really believe they LIKE to be sprinters, getting paid almost nothing, struggling to survive?
They would like to be in the NFL, earning millions a month, but they are too weak for it, so they have to hide in the track. Happened to Kerley, who was a Football player on the path to the NFL, but broke his collarbone playing Football.
Just imagine how faster the times would be if we got the actual best athletes competing in our sport...
Sprinters won't have brain injuries and Parkinson's disease at age 60 like football players.
Soccer players won't be surrounded by ladies in bun huggers like track runners.
Wait, I thought football IS soccer? I thought sprinters are runners, but not all runners are sprinters. So if R = runners and S = sprinters and football and soccer are both, lets say, T, then the square root of T is the hypotenuse of R and S to the 3rd power. There we go. Got it. What were you saying again?
While playing in the NFL, yes, but had they gone all in sprinting, possibly.
That’s the point. The NFL gets the cream of the crop that has the talent that would transfer over to sprinting.
There are some guys who are good at football... but they are even better at running fast.
So they end up sprinting instead of going to the NFL...
As far as the distance running/soccer thing... back in the day we didn't even have soccer to fail at. We had to fail out of football, basketball, baseball and wrestling.
We just watched a start up track league fail, and the nationals contested in a three-quarter empty stadium.
Pro football players play in sold out stadiums for their entire season. No one with a choice would choose sprinting over football.
Can we keep these kind of comments off of this site? I think that the original post was pretty low tier ragebait anyways, and you're going a little overboard with this.